Definition of Adultery

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Adultery

The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.

Adulteration; corruption.

Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.

Faithlessness in religion.

The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.

The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.

Injury; degradation; ruin.

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Adultery Quotations

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
H. L. Mencken

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
Jimmy Carter

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
John Updike

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
Samuel Butler

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.
Nicholas Sparks

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
Jerry Falwell

That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.
Nicole Kidman

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
Lafcadio Hearn

Adultery Translations

adultery in Dutch is echtbreuk, overspel
adultery in German is Ehebruch
adultery in Italian is adulterio, adulterino
adultery in Spanish is adulterio

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